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2014 Calypso & Soca Season Begins in Trinidad & Tobago

While most Americans will be looking at the Superbowl this weekend played in New Jersey, thousands of soca fans residing in Trinidad & Tobago will be preparing for the Groovy Soca Monarch Semifinals and the International Power Soca Monarch Semifinals.

The list of artists competing in both Groovy Soca Monarch and Power Soca Monarch Semifinals is listed below.

Calypso and Soca provide the oxygen for carnival. Without calypso and soca there is no carnival. Trinidad & Tobago 2014 carnival season is in progress. It will climax on March 3 and 4 in a sea of color, glitter and women in scanty costumes dancing to the most popular calypso and soca tunes of 2014.

2014 CALYPSO TENTS IN FULL SWING

All calypso tents are opened. Performers in the Kalypso Revue Tent managed by Sugar Aloes include Sexy Suzie and Dr. Witty; artists in Kaiso House Tent include Singing Sandra who is already booked for the Mother’s Day Saturday Caribbean Concert at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, Lani-K and Brown Boy; Kaiso Karavan Tent boasts of Scrunter, Kurt Allen and other popular artists.

Sandra, a tent veteran and a former National Calypso Monarch, hopes to take the crown in 2014; she will be on the 2014 Mother’s Day Saturday Concert in Brooklyn

(TOP) Sexy Suzie, a veteran in Kalypso Revue Tent.

Lani-K, a rising calypsonian, is at Kaiso House.

Another major tent is the International Divas Calypso Cabaret featuring Many young and veteran female artists such as Lisa John and Sharon Alexis.

New York Calypso Tent manager Count Robin is singing at Kaiso Showkase in San Fernando.

There are more calypso tents across Trinidad & Tobago where more than 200 artists are performing almost each night. One of them will become the National Calypso Monarch of Trinidad & Tobago on March 2, 2014.

Shadow, Road March winner, Soca Monarch and National Calypso, Monarch is one of the veterans at this year’s Mother’s Day Saturday Concert in Brooklyn

Meanwhile in frigid Toronto, New York, London and other cities, promoters are quietly organizing calypso-soca concerts and calypso tents that will be held during spring, summer and autumn. Many soca and calypso stars of Trinidad & Tobago carnival will be performing in those cities.

The first major concert in New York will be EVERYBODY’S Magazine Mother’s Day Saturday Caribbean Concert — artists already booked include Shadow, The Mighty Sparrow, Singing Sandra, Calypso Rose and King Short Shirt. More artists will be included. Tickets are already on sale and selling briskly. Tickets are at Brooklyn Center Box Office and online at www.everybodysmag.com.

Many artists and their agents are frequently calling EVERYBODY’S Magazine to be included in its New York Calypso & Soca Tent, August 26-September 1 at Tropical Paradise Ballroom. “The biggest challenge we have is choosing the 30 to35 calypsonians for the tent from Trinidad & Tobago, other calypso islands including the USVI,” says Associate Tent Manager Michelle Young.